irections emea 2025 poznan
4-6 November 2025 in Poznan, Poland

Directions EMEA 2025

Join us for Directions EMEA 2025 - experience the latest updates from Microsoft and the ecosystem while connecting with the entire Business Central community, including resellers, add-on providers, Microsoft, CSPs, MVPs, developers, consultants, sales and marketing professionals, and business leaders.  Fuel your motivation, inspiration, and success through sharing and collaboration.

Is Microsoft Fabric the new Power BI and why should I care when working with Business Central?

Explore how Microsoft Fabric can elevate your standard Business Central reporting.

In this session, you'll discover why Fabric's unified platform offers fresher data, faster answers, and more flexibility than out-of-the-box reporting apps. We will walk through the key differences, explain the concepts of the Lakehouse and Warehouse, show you how Direct Lake mode delivers near-real-time insights, and share straightforward best practices to maximize performance, manage your budget, and deliver real business value with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric.

What You'll Learn:

- The Limitations of Standard Reports: Understand the common pain points of Business Central's standard reports and how Fabric is designed to solve them.

- Data Connectivity: Learn various methods for ingesting your Business Central data into the Fabric Lakehouse.

- Fabric's Core Value: See how a single, shared data lake and on-demand analytics tools can simplify your workflow and provide greater flexibility to answer new business questions.

- Cost Management: Discover practical tips for tracking your Fabric usage, setting sensible limits, and ensuring you only pay for what you need.

Speakers:

Julian Wissel

Founder of navida

Julian has been working in the NAV-channel since 2003 in mainly technical roles. In 2013 he co-founded navida in Hamburg to fully focus his energy on Power BI and Dynamics NAV.